By Anna Gail Carreon

Pilmico Foods Corporation has donated sacks of flour to a non-government organization being used in making nearly 60,000 breads for frontliners in hospitals and checkpoints around Metro Manila and Cavite.

Duterte’s Kitchen is a donation-driven, non-government organization started in Quezon City in 2016 that aims to address hunger among poor Filipinos. The group will be rationing the breads to medical staff and checkpoint personnel until the end of the Enhanced Community Quarantine on April 14.

Identified recipients include frontliners at the Philippine General Hospital, East Avenue Medical Center, Las Piñas Doctors’ Hospital, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, and Ospital ng Muntinlupa as well as personnel manning checkpoints in Antipolo City, Las Piñas City, Muntinlupa City, and Cavite.

In addition, informal settlers near and around BF Homes in Las Piñas City, including those whose homes were grazed by fire last March 5, have also received star breads.

Our hardworking frontliners in the field deserve our confidence and support, and we in the Aboitiz Group are behind them for the long-term. With our donation of bread flour, we hope to be able to meet their immediate nutritional needs to ensure the continuation of their valuable service moving forward.
– Sabin M. Aboitiz, President and CEO, Aboitiz Group

This flour donation was co-sponsored by the Philippine Military Academy Makatarungan Class 1978, Rotary Club of Makati Central, businessman Arben Santos, Cusinex Corporation, and the Philippine Association of Flour Millers of which Pilmico is a founding member.